I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
BRAD WARNERYou can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
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True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
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the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.
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Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
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You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
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So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.
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The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that’s easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
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Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
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The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.
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Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.
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I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that’s my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, “Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven.”
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People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.
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Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
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Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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